Bird flu killed five in Azerbaijan
Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:34 PM GMT171
GENEVA (Reuters) - The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed five young people in Azerbaijan in recent weeks, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.
The deaths take the global human toll from bird flu to 103 since late 2003.
The WHO said two other people in Azerbaijan had tested positive for bird flu. One of them, a 10-year-old boy, has recovered, while a 15-year-old girl remains in hospital in critical condition.
Four of those who died came from the Salyan region in the southeast of the country, while the fifth victim came from Tarter in the west, the WHO said.
The WHO said an investigation in Salyan had found some evidence that carcasses of numerous swans, dead for some weeks, but not buried, may have been collected by residents as a source of feathers.
The WHO team is checking whether the practice of defeathering birds may have been a source of infection.
Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:34 PM GMT171
GENEVA (Reuters) - The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed five young people in Azerbaijan in recent weeks, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.
The deaths take the global human toll from bird flu to 103 since late 2003.
The WHO said two other people in Azerbaijan had tested positive for bird flu. One of them, a 10-year-old boy, has recovered, while a 15-year-old girl remains in hospital in critical condition.
Four of those who died came from the Salyan region in the southeast of the country, while the fifth victim came from Tarter in the west, the WHO said.
The WHO said an investigation in Salyan had found some evidence that carcasses of numerous swans, dead for some weeks, but not buried, may have been collected by residents as a source of feathers.
The WHO team is checking whether the practice of defeathering birds may have been a source of infection.
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